From: | Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it> |
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Date: | Wed, 01 Oct 2008 05:29:15 +0200 |
Subject: | Re: [epistemology] A CONVERSATION WITH GEORGES METANOMSKI (NO.1 ) |
--- On Sun, 9/28/08, Antonio Rossin <rossin(at)tin.it> wrote:
Georges,
You would be quite right, provided only ypur communication
way were successful, i.e. effective.
Would your communication way be not so effective, maybe
some investigation could be the case - after all, this should be
not so hard a job, to the learned scientist you are.
Otherwise, we are doomed to fall down into Huxley's well-known
axiom:
"(Theory without practice is sterile)
Practice without theory is blind".
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G:
It's not an axiom, but an aphorism and it's dangerous
to follow aphorisms too far. It holds for science like
physics or for technology like car building, but not
at all for daily practice. A bike rider recalling the
Newton's mechanics at every movement, would find himself
soon in a ditch; a writer recalling the grammar and the
syntax at every word would cripple the conents and
produce a flat school exercise.
"I breathe without necessarily investigating biochemistry.I agree that you do not need to investigate communication
I think without necessarily investigating neurology.
I communicate without necessarily investigating
communication theory."
The latter holds for me, when I write about my view.
I'm not uninterested in impacting the society and in
that quality I fought in Warsaw Ghetto, in Polish
Resistance and in Israeli commandos. But when I
write up my view, I endeavor to express it as sincerely
as I can without any marketing considerations.
If the society choses to ignore it, it's their problem.
I'll not try to convince them by sacrificing contents
of my view onthe altar of communicability.
That being said, I shall always welcome friendly
stylistic suggestions of a better writer, as long as
they don't deform the contents.
Georges.
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